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l Holding Brstles in Brush Stocks.

Patented O'Ct. 29. 1867.

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Lettere P atent No. 70,270, dated October 29, I867.

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TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:

Be it known that we, GnAItLns D. Roenns, of Utica, Oneida county, and State of N ew York, and Mormon P. WILKINS, `of Jersey City, in the State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Oontrivances for Holding Bristles and other Fibres in Brush-Legs or Stocks, and that the following,take n in connection with the drawings, is a full, clear, and exact description thereof. In the drawings- 4Figure 1 is a. section through a brush, exhibiting one modification of our invention.

Figures 2 and 3 are elevations and sections through bunches of' bristles, their ferrules, and ferrule flanges, and attaching contrivances.

Figure 4 is a section through a different modification of attaching contrivance, with its ferrule and flange.

Figures 5 and 6 are elevations and sections ofthe same, with the bristles inserted; and

Figure 7 is a section through a brush, showing another modification of the invention, with the bristles partially driven into the stock.

Prior to the date of' our invention, `bristles or other brcs, whalebone, grasses, etc., have been secured in stocks by wires or pegs passed through loops in the bunch of' bristles,.as in ordinary hair, clothes, and tooth-v brushes, ete., etc. They have also been secured byV applying a cylindrical ferrule, without a ilange, around a bunch of bristles, and driving the f'errule and contained bristles int-o a cylindrical hole in a stock. Our inven tion, as in all modifications it employs a f'errnle, may be considered as an improvement on the latter mode of fastening; and in its'most perfect form our invention includes two improvements on the plain fcrrule, viz, rst

a means of holding the bristles in the ferriile; second, amethod of holding the ferrule in the stock; both more secure than the old mode, in which the i'errules were held in the stock and the bristles in the ferrnle by simple friction. `These improvements muy be used separately, and for the sake of convenience We term the contrivances for holding the bristles in the ferrule, attaching contrivances.

In all the drawings the fcrrule is represented as made with a flange, by preference slightly dished or cupped, r

like the flange of an ordinary eyelet. Into this ferrule bunches of' bristles are to be inserted, filling the bore of the eyelet, and by preference in a looped state, as in an ordinary tooth-brush. When the ferrule is like an ordinary eyelet, as at a a a, a small Wire staple or pin, 6b, is to be passed through the loop, this pin being the attaching contrivancc, and the whole is then to be driven into a cylindricalror tapering hole in the: brush-stock, theilanges entering countcrsinks or shallow cylinders formed around the holes, as at c c.' When the pin is staple-formed, it will crush in the periphery of the eyelet or ferrule as the latter is driven, and thus pinch the bristles,holding them fast by friction as well as by the positive fastening of the pin in the loop, and the ferrule will be held in by friction of its periphery, and also by the edges of the flange spreading out against the cir' cumference of the countcrsink, the latter eli'ect being specially noticeable when the ilange is dished, andis, by the act of' driving, formed into a plane or a lessrdishing surface. In place ofthe wire pin, peg, or staple, and as a substitute and equivalent for it, we sometimes intend to make the ferrule with small points or projections on its inner end, asat fl, tig. 4. These points are to he bent down into the loop of' the bristles, or among the ends ofthe bristles, if no loop be used, as indicated in figs. 5 and 6, and these fer-rules and bristles are then to be driven into a hole in the stock. t

Another modification ofthe attaching'contrivance is shown at fig. 7, where the ferrule is slit, so as-to form long points or prongs, and this form may be used most beneficially in combination with a tapering hole, and Without previous bending of the forks, prongs, er points, intothe loops of or between the ends of a bunch of bristles. As the ferrule is driven the prongs vvill embrace or enter among the libres, or do both, and hold them firmly in the fcrrule.

As before stated, the ferrules may be used without the anges, and with the attaching contrivances, or without these 4and with langes. The best plan is to use both. The most convenient tool for driving' the ferrules and their contents and attachments into the stock is a pincers, with a half cylinder cut out of each jaw so as to embrace the bunch of bristles or other libres, and handles s'o formed that they may be struck on their ends with a hammer.

We do not claim a ferr'nle surrounding bunches of bristles or other libres, and driven into a hole in a brushstock, but what We do claim. is Y 1. A bunch of bristles in combination with a anged ferrule, and these in combination with a hole or aperture and countersink in a brush-stock, substantially, as described.

2.*We claim, in combination, a. ferrule,`a bunch of bristles, and an attaching contrivance, substantially such as described, the combination being snbstantially such as set forth; andl also we clnimthese elements in combination with a. hole in abrush-stock.

3. We claim, in combination a anged ferrule, an attaching contrivence, and a bunch of bristles, the com- ,fl bnation being substantially such as described and we claim these also in combination with a. hole and countersink in a brush-stock, the combination being substantially such as set forth.

And We Wish it distinctly understood that bythe word bristlesY in all these 4claims we mean fibre, vegetable or animal, suitable for the formation of brushes.

CHAS. D. ROGERS, MONROE P. WILKINS. fr

Witnesses:

H. A. HARVEY, W. C. SCAM. 

